From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ghc-unix-time. Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 18:22:43 +0200 Message-ID: <20151022162243.GA10764@debian> References: <1445483479-19104-1-git-send-email-ericbavier@openmailbox.org> <1445503671-30014-1-git-send-email-ericbavier@openmailbox.org> <1445503671-30014-18-git-send-email-ericbavier@openmailbox.org> <87oafqq588.fsf@denknerd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41515) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpIdq-0002PT-Ia for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:23:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpIdl-0004Mb-N7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:23:02 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.24]:50411) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpIdl-0004MO-E2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:22:57 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87oafqq588.fsf@denknerd.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Paul van der Walt Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 05:43:03PM +0200, Paul van der Walt wrote: > Right, i see what you mean. I agree that it'd probably be the right > thing to do. However, to expedite the merge of wip-haskell-… i propose > that i take the solution of ghc-x11 and apply it to the relevant > packages, and then look at fixing the haskell-build-system. At that > point we can simply remove the phases introduced to work around this > deficiency. > Do you think that's acceptable, or is it imperative* that we first solve > the problem in the build system? > I prefer the incremental approach (but i am not an objective outside > observer). I think it sounds reasonable, and would save us from further iterations of 150 commits sent to the mailing list :-) Seriously, I am impressed by your git juggling. Andreas